Ellis's Reviews > American Tabloid

B's got a crush on Pete Bondurant from ever since way back when he first read The Cold Six Thousand but Kemper Boyd's my guy - gets me every time with his classic compartmentalization (nobody likes Ward, but I have a little bit of a soft spot for him). I put off finishing this for as long as I could because I didn't want it to end because it's totally brilliant and because Ellroy does the passage of time so well that even though it'd been two days and I was halfway through it felt like I'd lived the same weeks the characters had , but sometimes you've got to just get right in there & figure out who's going to get shot, so here we are. No complaints.